A PEW NOTES FROM MELBOURNE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 37

A PEW NOTES FROM MELBOURNE.

Diun Pasquin,— Walter Bentley is now engaged in Mr Garner's company at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne. Mr Garner, you will remember, was many years ago one of the bright particular stars of "the London Comedy Company, which included the late lamented Fred Marshall. Mr Garner also, a few years ago, < was one of thes leading partners in the dramatic firm of Williamson, Garner, and Mußgrove. Mr Garner is conducting business at the Bijou in accordance with the traditions of that house, which echoed not very long ago to the excellent acting of the company of Brongh and Boucicault. Mr Bentley has both pleased and surprised his friends by his appearances in tfce modern society drama whose characters, cool, calm, imperturbable, satirical, are almoafc the antithesis of Richelieu, Hamleti &c. In " Friends," alias " Peril," and in the " Morals of May Fair," alias " Tffe Turn of the Tide," Mr Bentley'a quiet conversational style, his gentlemanly pose, his evident capacity for self-.: uppresaion (the most sterling test of the actor) won for him sensitive ancl keenly appreciative recognition, allied to Eurprise that one intimately associated .with the interpretation of the heroic blank verse and exalted sentiments of Shakespeare, should be ablo with perfect ease to descend—or asceud, as the case may be — to or from the poetiy of the sixteenth century the colloquial language of the nineteenth- Rut tLis complete metamorphosis is. to be credited to Mr Bentley. Here we have impersonation subordinated to a. correct conception, and the personality of the artist ignored and merged in the true interpretation of the author's design. "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage," and clothes, rouge, limelight, scenery, wigs will not, cannot make an actor, which manufacture is the outcome of an income. And 'that income which must "come out" is called Ideality,. But Ideality must be guided by judgment, and it is this very judgments allied to this Ideality which has caused Me Walter Bentley 's recent marked successes afc the Melbourne Bijou. Thia capacity for selfrestraint at the bidding of nature and discretion is a bright symptom of what Mr Bentley'a future may bring forth. Now let me briefly give a precis, of the attractions at the other Melbourne theakres. Royal. — Walter Reynolds's "Shamrock and Rose," with Charle3 Holloway's Company. Princess.— Sir Augustus Harris's and Mr Pettitt's "Ljfe of Pleasure," with Bland Holt's Compajjy. Alexandra., — Fitzgerald's Cirous and Menagerie. Concerts. — We have just parted with tho Bellt-Cole Company, and Madame Do VereSapio and Madame Camilla Urso have gone over to your side. Music Halls. — Frank Clark's Company at tho Alhambra, and the Cogill Brothers at the Gaiety Theatre, are doing fairly well. Bijou.— oThe Turner-Montague English Opera Company. Business is dull, and theatrical .enterprise being a luxury, must necessarily suffer when society finds it difficult to provide for the necessaries of life, M. W. S.

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